Authorities arrested eight suspects, including two Chinese, for allegedly operating a call scam causing 60-million-baht damage and running travel agents to launder the illicit money. Pol Maj Gen Somsit Weeriyasan, acting secretary-general of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo), told the press on Thursday that the eight suspects were arrested on Wednesday. Full story: Bangkok Post […]
Nearly 50 illegal call center workers mostly from China were arrested after Bangkok police raided two homes. The call centers targeted people from China in their money scams. The arrested workers claimed to be deceived and coerced into working their jobs. BANGKOK – March 11, 2013 [Pattaya Daily News]; At 3 p.m., simultaneous police raids […]
The Criminal Court of Thailand sentenced 22 Taiwanese to 3 years in jail in call centre scam. Prison sentences reduced to 1 year and six months for confessing. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, July 6 – A multi-national call centre gang was arrested on Friday in the Thai capital, according to Thai immigration police. The gang of 15 persons, comprised of six Britons, two Americans, one German, two Romanians, one South African, and three Filipinos, were apprehended at an apartment in Bangkok’s upscale Sukhumvit area. Source: MCOT
BANGKOK, June 20 – Three British nationals were arrested for alleged involvement in a transnational call centre scam, Thailand’s Immigration Bureau chief said on Tuesday. Police Lt-Gen Wiboon Bangthamai, commissioner of the Immigration Bureau, said the three suspects were arrested with telephones, internet connection devices, computers and documents about the victims. Read more: MCOT
Bangkok police arrested a ‘call center’ scam gang operating from a rented house on Sukhumvit road. The gangs modus operandi: entice the victims to reveal their personal information and transfer their money to the scammers’ bank account. One of the victims an ex-British soldier lost his saving and killed himself. BANGKOK – June 6, 2012 […]
CHON BURI, May 26 – Thai police arrested 12 Taiwanese in call centre scam based in Chon Buri province along with an array of communication devices and notebook computers. Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung police station superintendent Pol Col Somchai Sunthonvanik led police to search a rented house in Bang Lamung district which was suspected of […]
BANGKOK, May 18 – The Thai authorities arrested three more men in connection with call scams which surfaced in the past week, and seized a large amount of equipment used in the international operation. Police on Friday searched a house in Bangkok’s Ramkhamhaeng area after six suspects had been arrested at a supermarket on Thursday […]
